Page 598 - Demo

588
123 STAT. 1489
MISCELLANEOUS ENACTMENTS PUBLIC LAW 111–13—APR. 21, 2009
‘‘(vii) renewing and rehabilitating national and State parks and forests, city parks, county parks and other public lands, and trails owned or maintained by the Federal Government or a State, including planting trees, carrying out reforestation, carrying out forest health restoration measures, carrying out erosion control measures, fire hazard reduction measures, and rehabilitation and maintenance of historic sites and structures throughout the national park system, and providing trail enhancements, rehabilitation, and repairs;
‘‘(viii) cleaning and improving rivers maintained by the Federal Government or a State;
‘‘(ix) carrying out projects in partnership with the National Park Service, designed to renew and rehabili- tate national park resources and enhance services and learning opportunities for national park visitors, and nearby communities and schools;
‘‘(x) providing service through a full-time, year- round youth corps program or full-time summer youth corps program, such as a conservation corps or youth service corps program that—
‘‘(I) undertakes meaningful service projects with visible public benefits, including projects involving urban renewal, sustaining natural resources, or improving human services;
‘‘(II) includes as participants youths and young adults who are age 16 through 25, including out- of-school youth and other disadvantaged youth (such as youth who are aging out of foster care, youth who have limited English proficiency, home- less youth, and youth who are individuals with disabilities), who are age 16 through 25; and
‘‘(III) provides those participants who are youth and young adults with—
‘‘(aa) team-based, highly structured, and adult-supervised work experience, life skills, education, career guidance and counseling, employment training, and support services including mentoring; and
‘‘(bb) the opportunity to develop citizen- ship values and skills through service to their community and the United States;
‘‘(xi) carrying out other activities, addressing unmet environmental and workforce needs, that the Corporation may designate.
‘‘(C) CLEAN ENERGY SERVICE CORPS INDICATORS.—The
indicators for a corps program described in this paragraph are—
‘‘(i) the number of housing units of low-income households weatherized or retrofitted to significantly improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions;
‘‘(ii) annual energy costs (to determine savings in those costs) at facilities where participants have pro- vided service;
123 STAT. 1490